{"id":446,"date":"2011-09-27T06:17:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T10:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mycockerspaniel.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2011-09-27T06:17:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T10:17:10","slug":"tail-docking-banned-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"Tail docking banned in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_447\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-447\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/docker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-447\" title=\"Tail docking instrument\" src=\"http:\/\/mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/docker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tail docking instrument<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a title=\"The Animal Welfare Board of India Web site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.awbi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Animal Welfare Board of India<\/a> (AWBI) now classifies tail docking and ear cropping as mutilation and animal cruelty which is a punishable offense under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960. Persons caught performing these procedures shall be punished under Sections 428 and 429 of the Indian Penal Code as they maim or cause injury to animals.\u00a0 An advisory will be sent to all veterinarians to end the practice.\u00a0 AWBI considers these procedures as &#8220;non-therapeutic&#8221; and &#8220;cosmetic.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) now classifies tail docking and ear cropping as mutilation and animal cruelty which is a punishable offense under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960. Persons caught performing these procedures shall be punished under Sections 428 and 429 of the Indian Penal Code as they maim or&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/?p=446\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tail docking banned in India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25,8,52,150,149,148],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocker-news","tag-abuse","tag-cocker-spaniel","tag-cruelty","tag-ear-cropping","tag-india","tag-tail-docking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}